Yesterday the MLBPA started laying the grounds for challenging potential Biogenesis suspensions, and today agent Scott Boras joined in:
“We have a system in place that provides due process,” Boras said. “Yet we have a dynamic in place that is operating outside the process of due process, where we are announcing things before we have a factual presentation.
“The joint drug agreement accounts for a hearing, a presentation of facts and we have announcements of suspensions and people involved without due process.”
It would be interesting if MLB uncovers hard evidence of drug use, then can’t suspend the players because they violated the CBA.
Maybe that’s the plan. While there are some players on the list whose suspensions would not hurt team revenues, a number of the would like Braun, Cruz, etc.
There are even more players than the infamous 20
in the records they just bought, and as I speculated before, I wondered if the purpose was to protect some of these players than prosecute them.
Bud would fall all over himself to suspend a guy like Arod with his hugely non performing contract, but he has to look at the bigger picture.
As much as I dislike Uncle Bud, he is no dummy. As FDR supposedly said, most things happen by design in politics, and Bud is a politician.
The illusion that things happen by accident or incompetence by bright people is promoted by them as a they are a convenient cover.